This article examines the transformative effects of platforms on cultural production through
an analysis of the LINE “super app.” Super apps are apps that do-everything; mega …

From Netflix and Hulu to iPlayer and iQiyi, the rapid growth of internet-distributed television
services worldwide presents both opportunities and challenges for media industry scholars …

Are the digital platforms that we know here to stay? Both empirical insights and theoretical
works suggest digital platform stability. Digital platforms such as Airbnb, Netflix and Taobao …

In this volume Florian Schneider shows how mass media events fit into the political,
economic, and cultural developments in China. Through expert interviews and empirical …

This article interrogates the recent rise of the so-called 'IP films' in the Chinese media
industry as an indication of a profound transformation in the cultural and economic …

This article analyzes how the governance of digital architecture, such user interfaces,
algorithms, and digital features, shapes political interaction and information control in China …

In early 2020, China witnessed the first case of COVID-19. The nation strived to manage the
situation through stringent measures with the help of digital technologies including …

This article reviews a decade of research, published in the journal Asiascape: Digital Asia
(dias), that explored the question of how digital technologies and their usage have shaped …

This article describes comparative internet studies as a useful paradigm through which to
study Asian internet (s). It defines comparative internet studies as the systemic comparison …

Zusammenfassung (Medien-) theorien der Plattform sind keine neutralen Intermediäre, sie
tun etwas. Der vorliegende Text differenziert deshalb zwischen verschiedenen Praktiken …